The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 22, 1993 - 9
4A 'Folly' filled with romance
By LIZ SHAW
Calling all love story enthusiasts! The Residential
College Players are opening their season with Lanford
Wilson's Tally Family, "Tally's Folly" in which only
Sally Tally appears. This timeless comedy, one of a cycle
of plays involving the Tally Family, is a romantic love
story following Matt Friedman (Rob Sulewski) in his
Otempts to woo Sally Tally (Toni Trapani) into loving
Tim. The hilarious undertaking is being directed by RC
junior Jeffry Herman.
Though the play has only two characters, that is all this
love story should need, especially considering the two are
quite endearing to the audience. Their easy banter and
ceaseless bickering is something that will be both hilari-
ous and most likely familiar to any audience members
with any semblance of a love life.
"These characters are possibly more alive than any
ve ever encountered in other theatrical works," Herman
assured the audience will be caught up in the story of
Matt and Sally's stab at love.
The two characters had an affair in the past and then
separated. The play revolves around their seeing each
other for the first time in a year, and Matt expressing his
love for Sally. The problems that ensue (and you knew
there had to be problems, it can't be a love story without
some strife!) occur because of something that has hap-
pened to them in their separate pasts. It is something that
terrifies both of the prospect of love. What exactly hap-
pened to them? You have to see the play to find out,
director Jeff asserts.
"Both have had life-shattering experiences which have
made them unwilling to fall in love," was the extent of his
explanation.
In short (and staring quite deeply into the bowels of all
possible interpretation of the work), the play is a study in
whether or not our world is any longer conducive to loving
relationships. People may actually find themselves won-
dering whether or not Sally and Matt should be together
after all. It's a question of whether or not a person can
really sustain love in a society that thinks love is a
weakness.
"It is a very powerful work about love and whether or
not it can exist in a world that ends to destroy such
emotions," Herman said.
One should not carry all this extra baggage in with
them to see the play: after all it is a comedy. I wouldn't
suggest, however, bringing a person you hope to be
gaining romantic linkage to. Why ask for trouble, right?
TALLY'S FOLLY will be performed in the Residential
College Auditorium in East Quad Friday and Saturday
at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $3 for
students and $Sfor real people.
Great word of mouth has made the arrival of "Dazed and Confused" at Showcase a greatly anticipated event. Taking
place during the last day of the 1976 school year, director Richard Linklater has captured the attitudes of seventies
high school students the way Cameron Crowe captured them in the eighties with "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
Primus searches for roots through dance
Uettin' high off family values
By MICHAEL BARNES
Do you ever want to take morality
and family values, roll 'em up in rice
paper and then smoke 'em. That's
what the Ann Arbor Film Coopera-
tive is letting us do this Friday and
turday Night. They're offering the
igh School Nightmare Weekend
FilmFestival"featuring "The Reagans
Speak Out on Drugs," "Reefer Mad-
ness" and "Hygiene Hijinx" all
films celebrating our violent and in-
satiable need for narcotics.
"The Reagans Speak Out on
Drugs" is are-edited expos6 of Ronny
and Nancy's chronic use of
'.sychoactive drugs. See how the
rmer President and First Lady's
message of Just Saying No was a
pathetic smokescreen, a weak attempt
at thought control, in order to conceal
their heavy dopage. Now we know
why Ronny was telling jokes after
getting shot - by that point he was
already coasting well on a morphine
kick. Nancy was probably back at the
White House smoking joints with her
trologer, and in a state of paranoia,
'ying to get someone fired. This film
is a brilliant victory for advocates of
chemical brain erasure who scoff at
the misinformation and lies spread by
the anti-drug campaign.
"Reefer Madness" is the startling
story of a swell 1950's boy named
Bill that becomes a near casualty to
the scourge of the drug menace. Louis
Gasnier's film is a shocking expose
about young adults who smoke reefer,
experience dangerous hallucinations,
lose all power to resist physical emo-
tions and nearly come close to mad-
ness. At the beginning of the movie,
Bill is the kind of guy who reads
"Romeo and Juliet" to his sweety and
says "hey, you're on the hook for a
root beer" to his friend. Bill soon
becomes acquainted with a little bud
and learns to bake his brain in battery
acid. He and his friends become
Dionysian fools, smoking reefer with
wild frenzy. They toke and grope one
another in the closet as dope clouds
caress the prickly hairs of their vitals.
The best thing about "Reefer Mad-
ness" is watching how quickly the
crew gets wasted. Ike-era weed must
have been potent 'cause these kids
take ahit from ajoint and soon they're
stumbling all over the dance floor,
grinning like fools and attacking one
another on the couch, like ravenous
sexual beasts. Things get out of hand,
though asBill's babe gets blown away
and he catches the heat. Still, it's a
pleasure to see him burn through the
moral fabric of 50s society.
Drug addicts are filthy and the
Nightmare weekend concludes with a
series of public service specials on
how to get clean. "Hygiene Hijinx!"
teaches you how to clean your shirts
that reek of bong water and remove
the splotches of bodily fluids from
your pants. These vintage high school
hygiene shorts take sadistic cleanli-
ness to a new level. They are perfect
models of a sanitized, sterile decade.
The folks at The Ann Arbor Film
Co-op are so kind to give us a week-
end to stumble into a theater and piss
all over the idea of family values. So
unite all delinquents and sputtering
addicts, blunt your mind and enjoy
this festival's mockery of bankrupt
morality.
THE HIGH SCHOOL NIGHT-
MARE WEEKEND is playing in
Aud. A, Angell Hall Friday and
Saturday night starting at 7:30.
By SHIRLEY SEROTSKY
"My career has been a quest, a
search for roots," explained Dr. Pearl
Primus. This search has taken Dr.
Pearl Primus, renowned American
anthropologist, choreographer and
dancer, to the far reaches of the world.
From the most rural villages of the
African Interior, to the urban jungle
known as "The Big Apple," and this
weekend, to the Studio A Theater of
the University's dance building.
And what a career it's been. Dr.
Primus has worked with the likes of
archeologist Margaret Mead and
dance legend Martha Graham. She
has served as a teacher and guest
lecturer at the most esteemed univer-
sities of the world, and has amassed a
list of credits and honors too numer-
ous to name. Amongst these is the
National Medal of the Arts Award,
presented to her by the president in
1991, for"...weaving together dance,
choreography and anthropology, to
explore themes of spirituality and
heritage".
This weekend, Ann Arbor will
have the rare opportunity to view as
Dr. Primus weaves her magic. The
performance will feature Kim Bears,
of the Philadelphia Dance Company,
in a piece set to the Langston Hughes'
poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
and Michigan's own , Linda Spriggs,
in adance which Dr. Primus explained,
"was created specially for Ms.
Spriggs, and entitled 'Griot,,"
In addition, the performance in-
cludes many members of the dance
department, to whom went Dr.
Primus' highest praises. "The stu-
dents have worked very hard," she
explained, and expressed a desire to
return to the University in the future,
perhaps next time for a longer resi-
dency.
THlE WORKS OF PEARL PRIM US
will be presented on Saturday,
October 23 at 8 p.m., and Sunday,
October 24 at 4 p.m., in Studio A of
the Dance Building. Tickets are $6
for students and seniors, $10Qfor the
general public.
GARRISON KEILLOR
An evening of comic stories, duets, & readings
from his new book, The Book of Guys
with Kate MacKenzie & Richard Dworsky
"It is time for women to take over the world so that guys
can pursue their destiny as adventurers, lovers, humorists
and backup singers."
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Bad Brains
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In the 13 years since their first
release, Bad Brains have never gained
the praise they deserve. This is shock-
ing considering the huge influence
they've had on today's music scene.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fishbone
and Living Colour all owe a stylistic
debt to this seminal black punk reggae
fusion band.
In fact, it would not be difficult to
*stake Bad Brains' sound as evolv-
ing from those bands. However, the
fact is that Bad Brains did not only
evolve with these bands, but preceded
them by several years.
Their eclecticism is readily appar-
ent. The title track gives the impres-
sionofasong performed by Megadeth
and Fishbone members with a reggae
twist. "Unidentified" contains an
qundance of abrupt tempo changes
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bum is not all hard-edged. A pair of
fairly pure reggae songs give pleasant
breaks from Bad Brain's intensity.
Serving a similar purpose is the funky
"Hair," with its almost sexy vocals.
The lyrics on the album are also a mix
of the very peaceful and the indig-
nant, a result of Rastafarian spiritual
influence and the rock anti-authority
ethic. The musically gentle "Love is
the Answer" is such a song: "We a go
mash it down an' bring on revolution
with my jah jah sound. And give the
main solution with the love we found."
It's a delicate balance of anger and
peace, and is a refreshing change from
the often all-too angry revolutionary
music of today.
Bad Brains is not a standard genre
group. If you want music to fit into a
mold and stay there, then don't get
this. If you'd like to try something
different that has been 13 years in the
making, rise to "Rise."
- Ted Watts
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